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Author : Alcoholics Anonymous
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893007963
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)
Download or read book A. A. in Prison written by Alcoholics Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal stories of prison inmates who are recovering alcoholics.
Author : Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Publisher : A. A. World Services, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 194088991X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)
Download or read book A.A. in Prison: Inmate to Inmate written by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. and published by A. A. World Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by and for incarcerated alcoholics, this slim, staple-less volume contains 26 stories by A.A. members who found their way to the Fellowship and got sober while behind bars. All of these individuals reveal how, through the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, they transformed their lives and found serenity despite their surroundings. One after the other, these recovering alcoholics — of all ages and all types — share how they came to grasp that no prison is as formidable as active alcoholism. From one story: “It may sound crazy to feel freedom in jail or prison. But that’s exactly what I have. I’ve known more freedom in these past 15 months than in all my 32 years of life.” Full of clear-sighted honesty, personal revelations and, most of all, hope in the most challenging circumstances, A.A. in Prison: Inmate to Inmate is a must-have piece of literature for incarcerated alcoholics as well as for the A.A. member engaged in service in correctional facilities. A.A. in Prison: Inmate to Inmate has been approved by the General Service Conference.
Author : Aa Grapevine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938642951
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Free on the Inside written by Aa Grapevine and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of alcoholics are confined in prisons and many have no AA meetings at all. There is hope. Luckily, there are dedicated members who take meetings inside and do vital corrections correspondence. This Grapevine book features hopeful stories from AA members inside and out of prison walls.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A.A. in Prison written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal stories of 32 prison inmates who are recovering alcoholics.
Author : Cecil Rose
Publisher : carl (tuchy) palmieri
ISBN 13 : 9781419663185
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (631 download)
Download or read book When Man Listens written by Cecil Rose and published by carl (tuchy) palmieri. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of an edition published in New York in 1937 by Oxford University Press.
Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698176936
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous written by Bill W. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Author : Gene Healy
Publisher : Cato Institute
ISBN 13 : 9781930865631
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (656 download)
Download or read book Go Directly to Jail written by Gene Healy and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American criminal justice system is becoming ever more centralized and punitive, owing to rampant federalization and mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines. Go Directly to Jail examines these alarming trends and proposes reforms that could rein in a criminal justice apparatus at war with fairness and common sense.
Author : Garrett Phillips
Publisher : Witstream Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781734857504
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Lookout For Shorts: A Prison Memoir written by Garrett Phillips and published by Witstream Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An arrest and conviction for trafficking ecstasy can lead to comedy. A character-strewn path of corrections that follows can be entertaining. This is the story of a "book-learnin' smart-ass" who endured a three-year minimum-security prison tour and lived to make fun of it.Lookout is a departure from hardcore prison tales. This one is gonzo and humorous in tone. The story focuses on inmate and administrative follies found in minimum-security lockup and what it's like to endure its coarse subculture. The author's unflinching self-examination details his drug-dealing days, a rehab stint, and his misspent youth.
Author : Lisa M. Corrigan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496809106
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Prison Power written by Lisa M. Corrigan and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Diamond Anniversary Book Award and the African American Communication and Culture Division's 2017 Outstanding Book Award, both from the National Communication Association In the Black liberation movement, imprisonment emerged as a key rhetorical, theoretical, and media resource. Imprisoned activists developed tactics and ideology to counter white supremacy. Lisa M. Corrigan underscores how imprisonment—a site for both political and personal transformation—shaped movement leaders by influencing their political analysis and organizational strategies. Prison became the critical space for the transformation from civil rights to Black Power, especially as southern civil rights activists faced setbacks. Black Power activists produced autobiographical writings, essays, and letters about and from prison beginning with the early sit-in movement. Examining the iconic prison autobiographies of H. Rap Brown, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur, Corrigan conducts rhetorical analyses of these extremely popular though understudied accounts of the Black Power movement. She introduces the notion of the “Black Power vernacular” as a term for the prison memoirists' rhetorical innovations, to explain how the movement adapted to an increasingly hostile environment in both the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Through prison writings, these activists deployed narrative features supporting certain tenets of Black Power, pride in Blackness, disavowal of nonviolence, identification with the Third World, and identity strategies focused on Black masculinity. Corrigan fills gaps between Black Power historiography and prison studies by scrutinizing the rhetorical forms and strategies of the Black Power ideology that arose from prison politics. These discourses demonstrate how Black Power activism shifted its tactics to regenerate, even after the FBI sought to disrupt, discredit, and destroy the movement.
Author : Robert T. Chase
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653583
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book We Are Not Slaves written by Robert T. Chase and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards Best Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public as modern, efficient, and disciplined. Inside prisons, however, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, intensifying the labor division that privileged some prisoners with the power to accelerate state-orchestrated brutality and the internal sex trade. Reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. These insurgents won epochal legal victories that declared conditions in many southern prisons to be cruel and unusual--but their movement was overwhelmed by the increasing militarization of the prison system and empowerment of white supremacist gangs that, together, declared war on prison organizers. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.
Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Alcoholics Anonymous World Services
ISBN 13 : 9780916856014
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions Trade Edition written by Bill W. and published by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services. This book was released on 1953 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Steps to recovery.
Author : Dan Berger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317662229
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Rethinking the American Prison Movement written by Dan Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking the American Prison Movement provides a short, accessible overview of the transformational and ongoing struggles against America’s prison system. Dan Berger and Toussaint Losier show that prisoners have used strikes, lawsuits, uprisings, writings, and diverse coalitions with free-world allies to challenge prison conditions and other kinds of inequality. From the forced labor camps of the nineteenth century to the rebellious protests of the 1960s and 1970s to the rise of mass incarceration and its discontents, Rethinking the American Prison Movement is invaluable to anyone interested in the history of American prisons and the struggles for justice still echoing in the present day.
Author : Norman Bruce Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252074011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Forms of Constraint written by Norman Bruce Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigorously documented and generously illustrated, Forms of constraint surveys prison architecture from earliest times to the present. Embedding his discussion of architectural detail in a history of social ideas about prisoners and imprisonment, criminologist Norman Johnston considers the architectural design and features of prisons in light of the purposes they were meant to serve. Johnston describes the preferred types of prison layout in various eras and locations. He assesses the success or failure of building elements in fulfilling goals such as prisoner isolation, segregation by gender or by severity of crime, adequate hygiene, rehabilitative activities, and surveillance of prisoners and guards. As goals and the consequent demands on the physical structure changed, new templates for the ideal prison emerged. Johnston traces the gradual rise of prison design as an architectural specialty and profiles the early figures and organizations devoted to the field, including William Blackburn, the first architect to specialize in prison design; John Haviland, architect of the influential Pennsylvania prison style; and Jeremy and Samuel Bentham, who conceived the much-discussed but never built Panopticon. He describes changes in prison design as architecture and penal philosophy leadership passed from one country to another. He also provides broad coverage of penal methods and prison architecture around the world.
Author : Jimmy A. Lerner
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767909194
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)
Download or read book You Got Nothing Coming written by Jimmy A. Lerner and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of astonishing power–the true story of a middle-class, middle-aged man who fell into the Inferno of the American prison system, and what he has to do to survive. It is your worst nightmare. You wake up in an 8' x 6' concrete-and-steel cell designated "Suicide Watch #3." The cell is real. Jimmy Lerner, formerly a suburban husband and father, and corporate strategic planner and survivor, is about to become a prison "fish," or green new arrival. Taken to a penitentiary in the Nevada desert to begin serving a twelve-year term for voluntary manslaughter, this once nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up sharing a claustrophobic cell with Kansas, a hugely muscled skinhead with a swastika engraved on his neck and a serious set of issues. And if he dares complain, the guards will bluntly tell him, "You got nothing coming." Bringing us into a world of petty corruption, racial strife, and crank-addicted neo-Nazis, Jimmy Lerner gives us a fish’s progress: a brash, compelling, and darkly comic story peopled with characters who are at various times funny, violent, and surprisingly tender. His rendering of prison language is mesmerizingly vivid and exact, and his search for a way not simply to survive but to craft a new way to live, in the most unpropitious of circumstances, is a tale filled with resilience, dignity, and a profound sense of the absurd. In the book’s climax, we learn just what demonic set of circumstances–a compound of bad luck and worse judgment–led him to the lethal act of self-defense that landed him in a circle of an American hell. Electrifying, unforgettable, bracingly cynical, and perceptive, You Got Nothing Coming is impossible to put down or shake off. What the cult favorite Oz is to television, this book is to prose–and all of the events are real.
Author : Reuben Jonathan Miller
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316451495
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Halfway Home written by Reuben Jonathan Miller and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson). Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners, ex-prisoners, their friends, and their families to understand the lifelong burden that even a single arrest can entail. What his work revealed is a simple, if overlooked truth: life after incarceration is its own form of prison. The idea that one can serve their debt and return to life as a full-fledge member of society is one of America's most nefarious myths. Recently released individuals are faced with jobs that are off-limits, apartments that cannot be occupied and votes that cannot be cast. As The Color of Law exposed about our understanding of housing segregation, Halfway Home shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate. Parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished, unstable, and disenfranchised long after they've paid their debt to society. Informed by Miller's experience as the son and brother of incarcerated men, captures the stories of the men, women, and communities fighting against a system that is designed for them to fail. It is a poignant and eye-opening call to arms that reveals how laws, rules, and regulations extract a tangible cost not only from those working to rebuild their lives, but also our democracy. As Miller searchingly explores, America must acknowledge and value the lives of its formerly imprisoned citizens. PEN America 2022 John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist Winner of the 2022 PROSE Award for Excellence in Social Sciences 2022 PROSE Awards Finalist 2022 PROSE Awards Category Winner for Cultural Anthropology and Sociology An NPR Selected 2021 Books We Love As heard on NPR’s Fresh Air
Author : Leslie Schwartz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525534644
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Lost Chapters written by Leslie Schwartz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Following a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction after more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz was sentenced and served her time with only six months' sobriety. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others--whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell--she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places.
Author : Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Publisher : A. A. World Services, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1940889944
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age written by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. and published by A. A. World Services, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A.A. co-founder Bill W. tells the story of the growth of Alcoholics Anonymous from its make-or-break beginnings in New York and Akron in the early 1930s to its spread across the country and overseas in the years that followed. A wealth of personal accounts and anecdotes portray the dramatic power of the A.A. Twelve Step program of recovery — unique not only in its approach to treating alcoholism but also in its spiritual impact and social influence. Bill recounts the evolution of the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions and the Twelve Concepts for World Service — those principles and practices that protect A.A.s Three Legacies of Recovery, Unity and Service — and how in 1955 the responsibility for these were passed on by the founding members to the Fellowship (A.A.’s membership at large). In closing chapters of Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, early "friends of A.A.," including the influential Dr. Silkworth and Father Ed Dowling, share their perspectives. Includes 16 pages of archival photographs. For those interested in the history of A.A. and how it has withstood the test of time, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age offers on the growth of this ground-breaking movement. Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age has been approved by the General Service Conference.
